Baby Elephant Seal
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Pictures of Baby Elephant Seals
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- Cute Elephant Seal Baby
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- Small Baby Elephant Seal
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- Elephant Seal Baby with mom
Molting on Elephant Seals
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Molting is a major event in the life of Elephant Seals. Although they spend much of their life at see, Elephant Seals will come a shore to mold. This is a major event. Enough to make the male elephant seals stop fighting. Molting occurs two times a year.
Pictures of Elephant Seals Molting
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- Sad Molting Elephant Seal
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- Group of Elephant Seals Molt
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- Elephant Seals Molting on the Beach
What Do Elephant Seals Eat?
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Many people wonder what Elephant Seals eat…
It is believe that male and female actually eat different prey. The male diet is has more variety. He’ll eat small sharks, rays, and bottom dwelling fish. The female diet is much more selective. They eat mostly squid. Males tend to search for food along the continental shelf. The females travel more into open ocean.
Southern Elephant Seal Diet
Southern Elephant Seals will eat large fishes, squid and an occasional penguin. The Elephant Seal can five thousands of feet deep and hold their breath for two hours in search for prey.
Northern Elephant Seal Diet
A major part of the Northern Elephant Seal’s diet are Cephalopods. They also eat: whiting, rays, sharks, skates, and pelagic red crabs.
Elephant Seal Pictures
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Here is a brief collection of elephant seal pictures! Enjoy!
Pictures of Elephant Seals
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- Group of Elephant Seals
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- Elephant Seal Mad
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- Two Elephant Seals Fight
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- Two Male Elphant Seals Fight
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- Elephant Seal
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- Odd Elephant Seal
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- Elephant Seal on Beach
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- Another Mad Elephat Seal
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- Lots of Elephant Seals on Beach
Northern Elephant Seal
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There are two species of elephant seals, the Northern Elephant Seal is one of two species.
The Northern Elephant Seals were hunted nearly to extinction. This started at the start of the 1700’s and lasted until the end of the 19th century. They were hunted for a form of oil that you can make from their blubber. During this hunting period, the population dropped drastically. They’ve done a great job recovering though.
Differences Between Northern and Southern Elephant Seals
The Northern Elephant Seal is slightly smaller than the Southern Elephant Seal. The Northern Elephant Seal is still a huge animal, it may weight 5,000 pounds and can grow up to 16 feet long
Location of the Northern Elephant Seal
It is known to live in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. It migrates far north into Alaska and British Columbia. Although they live much of their life at sea and under water, they come ashore during mating season. They come ashore when they breed, give birth, or molt
Please check out the image to see a map of the locations of the Northern Elephant Seal.
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